Patent 11610226

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Ownership chain (1)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2023-02-17 · reel 059639/0426 · Assignment

    SHKEDI, ROY, MR.ALMONDNET, INC.

    Correspondent: R. DAVID WEISS

    Inventor assignment to original assignee

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Inventors

  • Roy Shkedi (Almondnet Inc. at time of filing)

Original assignee

Almondnet Inc. is the original assignee named on the issued patent. Almondnet Inc. is primarily involved in advertising technology, specializing in behavioral targeting. Based on publicly available information and its ongoing litigation activities, Almondnet Inc. appears to be an operating company, actively developing and asserting its intellectual property in the ad-tech space.

Assignment timeline

As of 2026-05-30, a search of the USPTO Patent Assignment Search database for US Patent 11610226 shows only one recorded assignment:

  • 2023-02-17 (executed) / recorded 2023-02-17 — Reel 059639/0426
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: SHKEDI, ROY, MR.
    • Assignee: ALMONDNET, INC
    • Correspondent: R. DAVID WEISS, 444 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10022
    • Context: Inventor assignment to original assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11610226
    2006 : Priority date
    2007 : Application filed
    2022 : Application filed (continuation)
    2023 : Inventor assigned to Almondnet Inc
         : Patent issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The sole recorded assignment is from the inventor to Almondnet Inc., the original operating company assignee.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Almondnet Inc. is the current assignee, which is an operating company, not a known NPE from public lists.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, handled by R. David Weiss.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from the inventor to the original assignee.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There are no recorded infringement suits specifically naming this patent.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of bankruptcy for Almondnet Inc.
  7. Privateering — not present. No evidence of privateering activities for this patent.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not end at a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion. The sole recorded assignment is from the inventor to Almondnet Inc., the original assignee, which is an operating company in the ad-tech space and is known for asserting its broader patent portfolio against competitors. There are no other signals indicating an NPE involvement for this specific patent.

USPTO Assignment Center search page for US11610226: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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